The nerve

Same day as the March for Life, I went to the National Campus Life Network dinner at a fun, festive, latin restaurant in Ottawa’s Byward Market. I will be back for some more mojitos and salsa lessons. But I digress.

As we all know, the pro-life movement is populated by largely, old, white men who want to tell women what to do. Evidence in the photo below. These photos keep appearing in my Facebook profile, so I thought it was time to post one. At the dinner, I spoke with eloquent women with degrees from fancy Ivy League universities. Very troubling. As we all further know, pro-life women are home, barefoot and pregnant, wondering how that happened to them. Finally, while waiting for the bus I had a conversation with one young woman whose job was working with the elderly in a home. And I just thought to myself, what nerve! She’s supposed to only care for people while they are in the womb.

People of the pro-life persuasion: Here’s to working ourselves out of the activism niche because of our success. I’ll buy a round of mojitos to that!

I’m not too sure how to send interesting articles to read without posting them in the comments section, so if I can be enlightened that would be great.

Anyways, this article is very interesting and talks about the different ways of seeing pregnancy in Japan and Isreal. Here is a quote:

” Ivry categorizes pregnancy for Israeli women as a “risky business.” Unlike the mother-baby dyad of Japanese pregnancies, Israeli pregnancies are strictly woman (not mother) and fetus. “When a woman walks into my office and says ‘I’m pregnant,'” Ivry quotes an Israeli ultrasound expert as saying, “I don’t touch her. I don’t say anything to her, I open a new card, and I write that I recommend an abortion. Then I sign her up on a paper that says that she is aware of all the testing that exists. Now we can begin to talk.”

This attitude characterizes the experience of pregnancy for Israeli women, Ivry says. With more and more prenatal diagnostic tests available for consumption, Israeli ob/gyns encourage women to keep looking for “deformities” throughout the duration of the pregnancy. Because the fetus does not become a baby—a person—until the moment of birth in Israeli understanding, pregnancy is seen as a state of limbo, with potential babies being gestated by women who have the potential to become mothers.”

I hope you find it interesting.

I’ll have to stop by next time I’m in Ottawa. I miss that beautiful city!

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